Stearman Airfield Bar & Grill
by: Kallisti Mandanis
Address: 14789 SW 30th St Benton, KS 67017
Phone Number: (316) 778-1612
Website: http://www.stearmanbarandgrill.com/
Email Address: reservations@stearmanbarandgrill.com
Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 11AM -10PM
Friday: 11AM - 12AM
Saturday: 8AM -12AM
Sunday: 8AM -10PM
Growing up with allergies to fish, shellfish, all nuts, and sesame seeds, it has sometimes been hard to find a restaurant that can accommodate all of my food allergies. However, I can safely recommend Stearman Airfield Bar & Grill, located just outside of Wichita, KS. I have gone there many times and not only are they good about food allergies, but their food is delicious as well.
Stearman is a fantastic place to eat because it is located on an airfield. While eating, you can look outside and see airplanes taking off. The staff will always greet you with kindness and are well-trained on food allergies. They make sure to ask each table about any food allergies and always double check with the kitchen to make sure it is safe to eat before bringing it out to you. My favorite items to get from Stearman are the Chicken Quesadilla and the House Salad.
Stearman Airfield Bar & Grill is one of my favorite restaurants and I hope you will try it if you visit Wichita, KS!
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Interview with Chef:
What steps do you take to accommodate people with food allergies?
One of the things we train servers to do is ask if anyone has any food allergies whenever they greet the table. As far as accommodations, we start with the most common allergies and try to educate the staff on what those are and what ingredients those go with. From there, we eliminate those based on what the person’s allergy is and provide an immediate suggestion that is safe for them.
Gluten is a hard one here, there are a lot of fried things and a lot of bread. While it might be easy most of the time to know what has gluten, it is harder to find an accommodation that’s not just a salad to fulfill that.
The hardest part about that are the secret ingredients. Not necessarily secret, but soy sauce in a marinade or something like that, that the staff might not know about.
In any situation where we have that, they do their best to control it at the table and answer any questions and they always go back to the kitchen and double check.
The guys that are making the food know it a lot better. They know the products better; they know the recipes better.
What foods on the menu are safe for the most common allergens?
We are pretty easy on the tree nuts- we don’t really have a lot. We have one salad that has it. We don’t have any peanut oil or anything like that. We use canola oil.
The biggest one that I see is gluten. Like I said, that just eliminates things like the burger bun but we have a gluten free burger bun. All of our burgers are pretty straight up, just salt and pepper on the meat. There’s cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onions so it’s really easy to know where the gluten is on that. We lean towards that- the gluten free bun.
Pizza we don’t really have a replacement for right now. There are products out there for gluten free. Most of them are nut allergies and gluten allergies.
MSG is a hard one to find. We don’t have a lot of items that have MSG but it’s one of those ingredients that sometimes is hidden in a product, like a sauce or soy sauce, or glaze. Stuff like that. That one is harder to track down.
Like I said, the nut one is pretty easy because we only have one thing with nuts.
There’s really only one thing that has soy sauce- the salmon marinade. Those are the two biggest ones that I’ve run into.
Have you been to Stearman Airfield Bar & Grill? Planning to go? Feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comment section of this article and/or ask questions about the restaurant, and we will try our best to answer!
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